There are no strict prerequisites for CCIE certification. Other specialized certifications or training courses are not required. Instead, candidates must first pass a written qualification test and then the corresponding practical lab exam. You are expected to have an in-depth understanding of the topics in the exam blueprints and strongly encouraged to have three to five years of job experience before planning certification.

The CCIE Data Center Workbook is a very good session offering a good overview about the contents of the exam. I will focus on the technologies, but only on the specifics that I wrote down during the session. This implies you will only find specifics about the exam and not about the technologies. There are enough resources to find details about the technologies, but you are reading this article if you want to know what to find when you step into the testing center or the lab.

Earlier this year in April, we informed you about a major change in strategy to retakes of the CCIE Written and Lab exam. Just today Cisco updated that policy with a major blow for anyone who has been preparing under the old pretenses. Namely that These policy changes will be applied retroactively from the date of a candidate's earliest lab attempt. The seemingly innocent announcement can be found on their CCIE Lab Policy page, just above the table indicating how long you must wait between attempts. This means that if you already have, for instance, two attempts going into August 2, you must wait 90 days from the time of your last attempt to retry the examination. This still gives folks a chance to get another attempt in before this Aug 2 deadline, regardless of the number of previous failed attempts.

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